no code implementations • ICML 2020 • Guangzeng Xie, Luo Luo, Yijiang Lian, Zhihua Zhang
This paper studies the lower bound complexity for minimax optimization problem whose objective function is the average of $n$ individual smooth convex-concave functions.
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2021 • Luo Luo, Guangzeng Xie, Tong Zhang, Zhihua Zhang
This paper considers stochastic first-order algorithms for convex-concave minimax problems of the form $\min_{\bf x}\max_{\bf y}f(\bf x, \bf y)$, where $f$ can be presented by the average of $n$ individual components which are $L$-average smooth.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2021 • Guangzeng Xie, Hao Jin, Dachao Lin, Zhihua Zhang
We propose \textit{Meta-Regularization}, a novel approach for the adaptive choice of the learning rate in first-order gradient descent methods.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2021 • Yuze Han, Guangzeng Xie, Zhihua Zhang
This construction is friendly to the analysis of PIFO algorithms.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2021 • Guangzeng Xie, Yuze Han, Zhihua Zhang
This paper studies bilinear saddle point problems $\min_{\bf{x}} \max_{\bf{y}} g(\bf{x}) + \bf{x}^{\top} \bf{A} \bf{y} - h(\bf{y})$, where the functions $g, h$ are smooth and strongly-convex.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2020 • Wenhao Yang, Xiang Li, Guangzeng Xie, Zhihua Zhang
Regularized MDPs serve as a smooth version of original MDPs.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2020 • Luo Luo, Cheng Chen, Guangzeng Xie, Haishan Ye
We study the streaming model for approximate matrix multiplication (AMM).
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2020 • Dachao Lin, Peiqin Sun, Guangzeng Xie, Shuchang Zhou, Zhihua Zhang
Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) use low bit-width fixed-point numbers for representing weight parameters and activations, and are often used in real-world applications due to their saving of computation resources and reproducibility of results.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Guangzeng Xie, Luo Luo, Zhihua Zhang
This paper studies the lower bound complexity for the optimization problem whose objective function is the average of $n$ individual smooth convex functions.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2019 • Luo Luo, Cheng Chen, Yu-Jun Li, Guangzeng Xie, Zhihua Zhang
We consider saddle point problems which objective functions are the average of $n$ strongly convex-concave individual components.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2019 • Guangzeng Xie, Luo Luo, Zhihua Zhang
This paper studies the lower bound complexity for the optimization problem whose objective function is the average of $n$ individual smooth convex functions.
no code implementations • ICLR 2019 • Guangzeng Xie, Hao Jin, Dachao Lin, Zhihua Zhang
Specifically, we impose a regularization term on the learning rate via a generalized distance, and cast the joint updating process of the parameter and the learning rate into a maxmin problem.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2018 • YuJun Li, Chengzhuo Ni, Guangzeng Xie, Wenhao Yang, Shuchang Zhou, Zhihua Zhang
A2VI is more efficient than the modified policy iteration, which is a classical approximate method for policy evaluation.
no code implementations • 17 May 2018 • Guangzeng Xie, Yitan Wang, Shuchang Zhou, Zhihua Zhang
In this paper we explore acceleration techniques for large scale nonconvex optimization problems with special focuses on deep neural networks.